FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 2010
March 5th, 2010
YIKES!… Brian is out of town this morning, but THE VOICE has delivered his usual platter of picks and predictions… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2010
February 26th, 2010If you are reading this from a warm climate (meaning the closest thing you can find to ice is some Hagan Daaz)… please… send some blankets and shovels to the Northeast…
Actually, I’m looking at the weather map, and the only mammals writing from warm weather may be frolicking in Southern Mexico or Venezuela… As of this writing late Friday morning, Orlando in Florida is only showing 49 degrees, and Key West, that paradise of warmth and flip-flops… is only at 58 degrees. I hope they are handing out thermal underwear to the Parrotheads at Margaritaville…
THE VOICE is thawing out the predictions of the upcoming baseball season, where they are currently attempting to wake the hibernating millionaires in Spring Training 
by covering them with warm groupies… Check out all the YANKEES AND METS SPRING TRAINING PICTURES… as well as a peek at the NBA, Arena Football, and even odds for NEXT YEAR’S SUPERBOWL… and, yes… CHEERLEADERS… a full episode of sports predictions and wisdom wrapped in the promise of Spring… click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…
Don’t forget… for local news, and video coverage of local musicians, arts, politics, and events you won’t find with the corporate media fatcats… visit the soon-to-be fancy and shiny… DoingItLocal.com…
Stay warm… drive safe… thanks for listening… -Brian
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2010
February 19th, 2010MOST RUSHED BRIANSMITHRADIO EVER…GOOD MORNING… I have some items to share today, but I will have those for later today… but rather that wait until later to let you enjoy THE VOICE, we’ve published his contribution for the week… so… please enjoy today’s wisdom and pixels of sports predictions genius from THE VOICE…
THE VOICE checks in… click on SPORTS PICKS on the right, or just click (here)…
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010
February 12th, 2010THE VOICE checks in with his Super Bowl REFLECTIONS… and a look ahead to NEXT 
YEAR’S SUPER BOWL ODDS… including a COUNTDOWN CLOCK to next years SUPER BOWL… and a look at what’s next in Arena Football and other sporting spectacles… and of course, CHEERLEADERS… read THE VOICE… go to “SPORTS PICKS” on the right side of the page, or just click (here)…
AND SEE THE VOICE… he will have a new video up soon… on… the soon-to-be-redesigned… “DoingItLocal.com”… click (here)…
CHANGES AT CHANNEL 8 WTNH… Musical chairs with anchors on every newscast… Kristen Cusato returns full-time in the mornings… others move to new shifts on afternoon and night newcasts… more, click (here)…
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2010
February 8th, 2010
I don’t want to sound negative here… but I just didn’t think the Super Bowl commercials were as good this year as some of the previous years… maybe I just ate some bad onion dip…
I guess I’m cranky today. I usually link to USA Today for their coverage of the Super Bowl commercials on the day after, but… I just went there, and they have put so many moving advertisements in the way, I couldn’t even get to where I wanted to go… and then they wonder why the online-newspaper industry is having a tough time…
So… here are all the Super Bowl commercials… on YouTube… click (here)…
MSNBC rates the commercials, click (here)…
LETTERMAN/OPRAH/LENO COMMERCIAL… pretty good surprise during the Super Bowl, it was kept top secret… The New York Times has the news on how it was put together… click (here)… although, I thought it looked like Leno had been placed in the commercial through special effects…
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2010
February 5th, 2010
THE LAST FOOTBALL GAME OF THE SEASON…
I’m not sure if I can legally say it here… the NFL has a serious lock-down on the use of the “S” word for the final game… forcing restaurants, bars, car dealers, travel agents, beer distributors, and salsa makers to say “The Big Game” or another clever phrase for the game…
On the other hand, I could use the publicity of a cease-and-desist order from the NFL, so…
SUPER BOWL PICKS FROM… THE VOICE!… yes, THE VOICE gives us his SUPER BOWL predictions exclusively in print here at BrianSmithRadio.com… and his SUPER BOWL predictions on video (from his secret underground bunker) over at DoingItLocal.com… SUPER BOWL… SUPER BOWL… SUPER BOWL… to read THE 
VOICE’s picks, as well as all his other observations and opinions and insight from other sports, like ARENA FOOTBALL, NASCAR, THE NBA, TENNIS, and of course, more CHEERLEADERS… then click on “SPORTS PICKS” over there on the right side of this page, or just click (here)… and good luck with your SUPER BOWL picks and SUPER BOWL parties…
… welcome to BrianSmithRadio.com… and it’s me, Brian Smith, formerly of 99.1 WPLR and WICC 600AM… I have a Facebook page, but I’m upgrading it… if you want to email me, here’s the address… unless you want to sell me Rolex replicas or Viagra from Canada… otherwise, here’s the email address…
MORE CHEERLEADERS… a wrap-up of the NFL season sideline action… click (here)…
CT/NY WEATHER…
for more Connecticut weather information, click on CTWeather.com…
POWERBALL… no one won on Wednesday night, so Saturday night it is worth… $114 MILLION
MEGAMILLIONS… no one won on Tuesday night, so tonight it is worth $20 MILLION
CONNECTICUT LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS… not a prediction… these are yesterday’s, click (here)…
ONE MORE STORY ABOUT THE CLOTHING-CHALLENGED… you know in Washington state, there are a lot of roadside coffee stands featuring coffee-brewing baristas in bikinis… today we find out a few of the ladies are under arrest for serving more than hot drinks in the drive-thru… more on the story, click (here)…
AUSTRALIA: BANKER CAUGHT LOOKING AT MODEL PICS ON NATIONAL TV… during an interview on national television in Australia… a worker in the background was seen looking at pictures of Victoria’s Secret model Miranda Kerr… a campaign to keep him from being fired has saved him… for the video and the story from CNN, click (here)… and read the story from The Daily Mail, click (here)…
NINE BIGGEST RIP-OFFS IN AMERICA… text messaging fees are just one of them… CNN has a list to make you think and fume… unless you are profiting from these items… click (here)…
THAT LONG ISLAND DUMMY… the story this week of the woman driving in the carpool lane on Long Island… I think that dummy should have her own Facebook page… story from the New York Post, click (here)…
and…
SLIPPERY PANTS… a man was arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts for stealing body lotion… 75 bottles of it stuffed in his pants… police chased him and caught him because he could hardly move… story, click (here)…
Enjoy your SUPER BOWL weekend… and drive safely… thanks for listening -Brian
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2010
February 1st, 2010
The never-ending story of a high-school basketball prank gone… good… more below…
but first… welcome to BrianSmithRadio.com… and it’s me, Brian Smith, formerly of 99.1 WPLR and WICC 600AM… I have a Facebook page, but I’m upgrading it… if you want to email me, here’s the address… unless you want to sell me Rolex replicas or Viagra from Canada… otherwise, here’s the email address…
CT/NY WEATHER…
for more Connecticut weather information, click on CTWeather.com…
POWERBALL… no one won on Saturday night, so Wednesday night it is worth… $107 MILLION
MEGAMILLIONS… one winner Friday night (Katy, Texas… $144 million), so TUESDAY, it is worth $12 MILLION
CONNECTICUT LOTTERY WINNING NUMBERS… not a prediction… these are yesterday’s, click (here)…
Mega Millions is now on sale in Connecticut… Powerball and Mega Millions will now be sold in the same states throughout the country… story, click (here)…
All of a sudden it seems like there are more award shows and pageants than ever… and why are there no award shows for award shows?… (although watching one may make you grow hair on your palms…)
25 WORST MOVIES EVER… but, so bad you have to see them, according to a new list from the website Rotten Tomatoes… click (here)…
How about let’s have a bad movie festival?… I would be willing to put that together… just think of the liquor sales alone…
Speaking of movies and festivals…
FREE!…ALICE’S RESTAURANT… THE MOVIE… you can check out the movie “Alice’s Restaurant”… the Arlo Guthrie movie that goes along with the song… free screening Tuesday night, February 2 at the Fairfield Theater Company… more details, click (here)…
AND…
BASKETBALL PRANK GOES BIG-TIME… this story just keeps on going… let me try to explain briefly…
A high school girls’ basketball coach at Olathe Northwest High School in Kansas… was set up at half-time… he was told if he could make a half court shot… blindfolded… the kids would give him free tickets to the Final Four… HERE’S THE PRANK PART: The kids told the crowd to cheer wildly after he made the shot to make him think (while blindfolded) he had put the ball through the net… NEVER THINKING HE WOULD MAKE THE SHOT… well, he did. The kids didn’t have Final Four tickets, but they did buy him a gift certificate to a Mexican Restaurant… here’s the story and video on that, click (here)…
BUT… THE STORY DOESN”T END THERE… no no no…
THE NCAA HEARD ABOUT THIS STORY… well, it was tough not to… it was all over ESPN and ABC the last few days… so… thanks to the NCAA… now the coach and his family have tickets to the Final Four in Indianapolis… in fact, the NCAA is picking up the tab for the whole trip… (you can’t BUY that kind of publicity)… here’s the story on this part of the story… click (here)… and another report (here)…
AND ONE MORE… a television news reporter… doing a report about this story… was standing at half-court and threw the ball over his head while reporting… AND MADE THE SHOT AS WELL… for the video of this one, click (here)…
Hope your weekend was a good one… thanks for listening… -Brian
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2010
January 29th, 2010
I just got in this morning from a quick business trip to Phoenix (where it was 65 degrees last night) to JFK airport (where it was 18 degrees this morning)… a cruel meteorological joke and I’m not laughing, as I sit here, freezing my nutmegs off in Connecticut. The woman at my airline ticket counter pulled up the weather forecast for me and laughed… said I should stay a few more days in Phoenix… I thought she was being compassionate, but she kept laughing. Even as I walked away she called out “15 degrees!”. Odd humor in the desert.
While I was plotting out the future of the radio and television business with other disgruntled, displaced, and… unemployed associates, THE VOICE was jotting down his Superbowl analysis… IF it is possible to put such genius on to mere paper… and placemats… napkins… even his shirt sleeves…
THE VOICE checks in with his latest picks for The Superbowl… The Pro Bowl… The 
NBA… the Australian Open Tennis Tournament… news on Arena Football… and of course, the CHEERLEADERS… read all about it, and prepare yourself for the wisdom of the sage’s sage… the prognosticator’s prognosticator… the … well, you get it… read the predictions from THE VOICE, click on “SPORTS PICKS” on the right, or just click (here)…
and don’t forget… see THE VOICE deliver his predictions… go to DoingItLocal.com and click on his videos…
JANUARY 26, 2010
January 26th, 2010MORE FOUND MONEY… MAN FINDS $3,100 IN PICTURE FRAME… guy in Florida finds a picture of the space shuttle… he was going to put it into a different frame and found cash stuffed in the back of the photo… story, click (here)… SO… this guy finds a picture of the space shuttle… in the trash, and likes it so much he wants to put it into a new frame?… and THEN finds money?… that’s gotta be one great picture… something odd about this story…
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2010
January 25th, 20102010… twenty-ten?… two thousand ten?… two oh one oh?… Remember the question a few weeks ago about the best way to pronounce the new year?… A teacher in Hartford weighs in with the twenty-ten vote… and more… click (here)…